{"id":1599362,"date":"2017-12-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p05pswk9"},"modified":"2017-12-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T15:00:00","slug":"symphony-of-the-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2017\/12\/02\/symphony-of-the-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphony of the Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient history was not silent, so why is our study of it? The oldest-known musical instruments \u2013 bone flutes found in southern Germany \u2013 date back a little over 40,000 years. But how long humans have been making music in one form or another is a matter of great speculation. What did \u2018music\u2019 mean in the context of our Palaeolithic and Neolithic forebears? And, how did the human voice, archaeological artefacts and ancient sites themselves affect the sounds of their world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p05pswk9\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient history was not silent, so why is our study of it? The oldest-known musical instruments \u2013 bone flutes found in southern Germany \u2013 date back a little over 40,000 years. But how long humans have been making music in one form or another is a matte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599363,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599362\/revisions\/1599363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}